Lots of Aussie folks who nabbed the first shipment of Xeon W3540 2.93Ghz (22x multi /23x turbo) cpus got this gem batch 3845B010. Chime in and join the club if you have one of these and post your results

Very promising start indeed using 4Ghz Prime95 benchmark as a guide to a cpu's potential. This Xeon W3540 3845B010 gem batch managed to do 4Ghz at 1.160v idle / 1.168v load with 52-57C load temps which is the best LGA1366 cpu i have experienced just edging out my Xeon W3520 3845A935 gem batch which did 4Ghz at 1.184v load with 57-60C load temps with exact same cooling EK Supreme LT / TFC480 / MCP655 H20.

Promising start with oc'ing 4378Mhz at 1.272v and 4487mhz at 1.320v for Super Pi 32M.

@4378Mhz at 1.272v

@4487Mhz at 1.320v

@4593Mhz at 1.424v

@4637Mhz at 1.472v

Seem to have a problem with booting into windows at >4600Mhz HT enabled but seems okay booting under 4600Mhz and then using either TurboV or setFSB to bump BCLK and cpu clock up. Going to try other cpu multipliers to make sure.

ooooh congrats on the lovely cpu I am a proud member of the W3540 3845B010 club

I've yet to test on the Classified & cascade, but will let you know my results. Up till now i've been bclk and probably pwm limited on a Giga EX58 extreme to around 5.3g 32m and 3dmark 05 & 03.. 230bclk isn't enough to max out these cpus when cold hehehe

Looking forward to your results George I'm sure you will have a lot of fun

ooooh congrats on the lovely cpu I am a proud member of the W3540 3845B010 club

I've yet to test on the Classified & cascade, but will let you know my results. Up till now i've been bclk and probably pwm limited on a Giga EX58 extreme to around 5.3g 32m and 3dmark 05 & 03.. 230bclk isn't enough to max out these cpus when cold hehehe

Looking forward to your results George I'm sure you will have a lot of fun

Yeah i think your W3540 3845B010 is one of the best of this batch I've seen

Yeah it looks real nice. Almost as nice as my 920. My next chip though is going to be a Xeon. My question to you is when are you going to get a Classified so you can start to see your chips true potentials? You don't know what you are missing out on until you go sub-zero with one of these mobos!

Yeah it looks real nice. Almost as nice as my 920. My next chip though is going to be a Xeon. My question to you is when are you going to get a Classified so you can start to see your chips true potentials? You don't know what you are missing out on until you go sub-zero with one of these mobos!

Well I never used LN2/DI before and last time i used my Kayl 1/4HP SS unit (with only s939/LGA775 mount support) was nearly 1 1/2 yrs ago if I remember correctly.

So forking out the dollars for an EVGA X58 Classified doesn't seem to be of great importance considering how much sub zero time it I'd have on it. Now if I didn't have to pay for an EVGA X58 Classified board that would be a different story altogether

But hopefully with finances, I'll get Kayl to build me a new phase change unit and push my cpus a bit more.